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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
"Righteous," he says, instead of "righteousness," which is through Christ through faith in him, a faith that justifies the ungodly and removes all stain from those who have been filthy, and cleanses them in the Spirit and prepares for them the shining honor of sonship. They pursue righteousness, not in the sense of driving it before them and so away from their minds, but of running toward it to take hold of it. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Listen to me, you who pursue what is just and seek the Lord. Consider the rock from which you were hewn, and the quarry from which you were dug. Consider Abraham your father, and Sarah who bore you; for when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and made him many. Therefore, the Lord will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. …
Thomas Aquinas
921. Give ear to me, you that follow. Here he excludes the second impediment to their liberation, which could be believed from the oppression and humiliation of the Jews. And this is divided into three parts: in the first, the impediment of dejection from their fewness in number is excluded; in the second, dejection from the power of their oppressors: hearken to me (Isa 51:7); in the third, from the weight of their punishment: but I am the Lord your God, who trouble the sea (Isa 51:15). 922. …
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